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Backyard Habitat species guide

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We have selected 66 native plant species for use in our Backyard Habitat program.

The information offers an insight to suitable soil types, locations in your garden, expected growth height and descriptions of leaves and flowering.

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Australian Bindweed

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Australian Indigo

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Barbed Wire Grass

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Black Wattle

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Blue Flax Lily

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Boobialla

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Christmas Bush

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Coastal Banksia

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Conesticks

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Creeping Raspwort

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Crimson Bottlebrush

Cross-leaf Honey-Myrtle

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Dagger Hakea

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Daisy Bush

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Drumsticks

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Golden Pea

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Hairpin Banksia

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Hairy Hakea

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Heath Myrtle

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Hillock Bush

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Honey Myrtle

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Hop Bush

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Hop Goodenia

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Knobby Club Rush

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Large-leaf Bush-pea

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Lemon-scented Tea Tree

Long hair plume grass

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Maidenhair Fern

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Mint Bush

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Mountain Devil

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Myrtle Wattle

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Narrow-leaved Bottlebrush

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Native Fuchsia

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Native Peach

Native River Mint

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Native Sarsaparilla

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Old Man Banksia

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Pastel Flower

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Peach Blossom Tea-tree

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Pigface

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Pine Leaf Geebung

Pomax

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Prickly Moses

Prickly Tea Tree

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Prickly-leaved Paperbark

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Raspwort

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Red Spider Flower

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Sandpaper Fig

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Saw Sedge

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Silky Hakea

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Slender Rice Flower

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Stiff Bottlebrush

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Swamp Oak

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Swamp Paperbark

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Sweet Scented Wattle

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Sydney Golden Wattle

Tussock Grass

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Wallum Banksia

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Water Gum

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Wax Flower

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Wedding Bush

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Weeping Rice Grass

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White Correa

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White flowered Zieria

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White Kunzea

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White Paper Daisy

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Wild Geranium

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